Quotes About Control

No sheep can be a king in the empire of wolves, but any wolf can be an emperor in the kingdom of sheeps! Paw is the key to the throne.

Not all the chains are bad and not all the freedoms are good!

Politicians are the close relatives of the Devil.

Politics is the art of anesthesia.

Sick minds like to prohibit; healthy minds like to free!

Stop obeying a dictator; you will then see that he is nothing! Stop obeying a king; you will then see that he is nothing! If you refuse the Devil, you will then see that he will shade away!

The concept of fate is an open insult against man's willpower!

To discipline your body, you need a disciplined mind!

We are always at the mercy of powers greater than us, even when our power is at its highest level!

We can't change our fate, because we can't change something which doesn't exist.

What is a throne? A chair; ornamented but a poisonous chair!

Biology always beats will power.

No matter how old you are, no matter how much you weigh, you can still control the health of your body.

Indeed, the more we are our own possession, the less we are God's possession.

Harper's Conservatives have used three basic methods to undermine environmental stewardship in Canada: reduce the government's capacity to gather data; downsize or eliminate offices that monitor and analyze scientific information; and seize control of channels of scientific information and prevent the publication or release of any information that could interfere with government policy.

the leader of a so-called democracy who ignores the will of the majority or fears criticism of his actions must resort to slinking in the shadows and to tightly controlling access to himself and to his ministers. Such is Stephen Harper's government.

You may not like the humor, but that is why every radio has an on-off button.

as the AI researcher Pedro Domingos so memorably put it, "People worry that computers will get too smart and take over the world, but the real problem is that they're too stupid and they've already taken over the world."21

complex system: a system in which large networks of components with no central control and simple rules of operation give rise to complex collective behavior, sophisticated information processing, and adaptation via learning or evolution.

Reflecting on real-life machine morality, the mathematician Norbert Wiener noted as long ago as 1960 that "we had better be quite sure that the purpose put into the machine is the purpose which we really desire."18

Two nurses with scissors could make a man naked in eleven seconds.

With the next diarmadhi, he'd wait to inspect and question before ordering the execution.

The gods do make playthings of us ... but it is we mortals who provide them with the tools.

Everything is evil that humans can't control or conquer